New 25% off Kobo coupon for the weekend:
jun1825FD (One time use; exp Jun 18). You might want to glance thru the list of
picks for Father's Day
that the coupon is supposed to work on (it may work on all non-Agency titles, but I haven't tested that).
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is
A Gay and Melancholy Sound (
$0.99), by Merle Miller. This is the first book in nationally renowned librarian Nancy Pearl’s new
Book Lust Rediscoveries series. On the book detail page, you'll find links to get a PDF introduction to the series from Ms. Pearl and a second PDF with discussions questions for the book, intended for reading groups.
Book Description
This lost literary classic is available for the first time in decades. As funny and entertaining as it is captivating and heartrending, A Gay and Melancholy Sound is a shattering depiction of modern disconnection and the tragic consequences of a life bereft of love.
Joshua Bland has lived the kind of life many would define as extraordinary. Born in a small Iowa town to a controlling, delusional mother who had always wanted a daughter rather than a son, her anger at him colors his life. His father, a compassionate drinker incapable of dealing with Joshua’s mother, walks out on his wife and son, leaving a vacuum in the family that is damagingly filled by his tutor-cum-stepfather Petrarch Pavan, scion of a wealthy New York family who has secrets of his own. Playing on Joshua’s brilliance, Petrarch trains him to win a nationwide knowledge competition, but Joshua’s disappointing results in the finals are met with anger and disbelief by both his mother and stepfather. If Petrarch was unsuccessful in teaching Joshua the information he needed to win the contest, he had more success in instilling Joshua with the cynicism, self-doubt, and self-hatred that fill his own soul.
Enlisting in the army during World War II, he serves first as an infantryman, where his irreverent letters home turn him into a best-selling author. Then, as a paratrooper, he meets the physical challenges he thought were beyond his reach and helps free the concentration camps before being wounded as the Allied forces free Buchenwald. Back home after the war, he becomes a wildly successful producer—and all of this by the age of thirty-seven. But when his production company flounders amid critical and financial woes, the reality of who he is becomes perfectly, depressingly clear: he has had a lifetime of extraordinary experiences—and no emotional connection to any of it.
Devil-Devil (
$1.53 / £0.99 UK), the first title in the
Sergeant Kella and Sister Conchita series by G.W. Kent, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $9.52). I don't see this one at Kobo, but they do have
two of his novels
(titles vary by region; in the US it's two editions of one novel) and they are coupon eligible.
One Blood is an especially good deal, as it is $8.39 before coupon (the
Kindle edition is $11.99), which you can reduce by as much as 50% using the coupon codes currently available.
Book Description
Sergeant Ben Kella of the Solomon Islands Police Force is only a few days into a routine patrol, yet already he has been cursed by a magic man, stumbled across evidence of a cargo cult uprising and failed to find an American anthropologist who has been scouring the mountainous jungle in search of a priceless pornographic icon.
To complicate matters further, at a local mission station Kella discovers the redoubtable Sister Conchita secretly trying to bury a skeleton -- then a mysterious gunman tries to kill her.
Kella already has enough problems. Mission-educated yet an aofia, the traditional peacemaker of the islands, reluctantly the sergeant is forced to link up with Sister Conchita, an independent and rebellious young American nun, to track down the perpetrators of a series of bizarre murders. The combination of the witch-doctor policeman and the Praying Mary, set against one of the most beautiful yet dangerous and primitive areas of the South Pacific in 1960, proves combative yet unexpectedly successful.
River's Song - The Inn at Shining Waters Series (
$2.17 Kindle, $3.99
B&N), by Melody Carlson, is the Nook Daily Find, significantly better than price matched on Kindle. If you are a fan of Ms. Carlson, I'd grab it at this price (before it goes back to the $10 range), but be prepared to have a number of errors in the text (they may have been fixed, but I seen comments as late as April). Often these errors are corrected and you can get an updated edition of the book at no charge, though (at least, on Kindle).
Book Description
Sometimes when we look back, we are able to see ahead
Following her mother’s funeral, and on the verge of her own midlife crisis, widow Anna Larson returns to the home of her youth to sort out her parents’ belongings, as well as her own turbulent life.
For the first time since childhood, Anna embraces her native heritage, despite the disdain of her vicious mother-in-law.
By transforming her old family home on the banks of the Siuslaw River into The Inn at Shining Waters, Anna hopes to create a place of healing—a place where guests experience peace, grace, and new beginnings. Starting with her own family . . .
The Unusual Suspects (Sisters Grimm Series #2) ($5.69 Kindle,
Kobo - coupon eligible;
$1.99 B&N), the second title in the
Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley, is the Nook Daily Find for Families.
Book Description
In book two of the series, the Sisters Grimm start school at Ferryport Landing Elementary. Daphne's lucky enough to get Snow White for a teacher-she loves little people-but poor Sabrina's stuck with Mr. Grumpner and a class of mildly psychotic sixth graders. When Mr. Grumpner is found hanging in a spider's web, it is up to the Grimms to find the Everafter who did it. If only Sabrina can get over her distrust of all fairy-tale folk. But how can she trust those who just might be responsible for the disappearance of her parents?
